Verte, La Grenouille

Title

en_US Verte, La Grenouille

en_US Fables de La Fontaine a Colorier

en_US Var 6

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US Textes établis par Robert E. Llewellyn

Creator

en_US La Fontaine, Jean de See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Images de Jean Simard

Date

2016-01-25T19:53:36Z

en_US 2007-02

en_US 1943

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:53:36Z

Date Issued

en_US 1943

Abstract

en_US Here is one of a set of six coloring books from during the Second World War which I have been lucky enough to find. The book is in large format (slightly larger than 8 x 11¼) and contains three fables on 32 pages. Each fable takes nine or ten pages to tell the story in one-page segments, with a few lines of prose complementing a large black-and-white cartoon. Each fable then adds one page for La Fontaine's original verse text. The first story is OF. Her sister Anne gets an old pump to blow Verte up after she has seen Bourru, the old steer of the farm. The artist does a good job of making Verte into a ball with small protruding hands and feet. That is our view just before she explodes. The second story is FM. This is a story of romance. The rat Théodule meets Flora, an American frog, on vacation at the oceanside, where she has just come out of the water to sunbathe. From the start, she is a bad frog and wants to bring him to the bottom of the water--and to eat him. Those Americans! This representation of Americans is more surprising in that these books were made in Canada. As Flora drags him down thrashing, the fish are astounded to see the two swim together. The bird of prey is flying an airplane with a rope and hook; he notices Théodule thrashing about and hooks him. The last picture is of the aristocratic bird eating both rat and frog. FK is the last story here. It comes up just short of La Fontaine's finish, as the complaining frog surprisingly repeats his earlier complaint about a do-nothing king and receives no answer. It seems as though two creatures ate their way into the pages of this pamphlet.

Identifier

en_US 6236 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81596

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Les Éditions Variétés

en_US Montréal

Subject

en_US PZ24.2.L595 Ver 1943 See all items with this value

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

Pamphlet